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Make teachers essential

Keep fights out of school, Editorial, Nov. 30

Mon., Dec. 3, 2012

Re: Keep fights out of school, Editorial, Nov. 30

The Toronto Star editorial board believes that teachers are such essential workers that they should not be allowed to use their democratic and legal right to strike. I agree that as a teacher I am not only essential to the daily routine of families, but that disrupting child care has a negative impact on the struggling Ontario economy, as parents will have to take time off for alternative child-care arrangements. So rather than eliminate my right to strike through an undemocratic and unconstitutional law like Bill 115, declare me an essential worker, limit my right to job action, and give me an 11.5 per cent raise like the Toronto police.

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